[pssturges]

Hi,

I have a few music DVD's from which I've ripped the ac3 soundtracks. I'm looking for a way to include them in my music library. I've tried putting them in mka containers, but it seems kodi/xbmc doesn't support mka. Any other ideas of how I can get them included in my library? Other containers? I'd rather not re-encode.

Thanks

[TRaSH]

you say soundtrack so i presume only audio and no video,
so why not convert to flac or mp3 what ever you prefer

[pssturges]

you say soundtrack so i presume only audio and no video,
so why not convert to flac or mp3 what ever you prefer

Correct. No video. Flac is not a terrible option, but that would increase the file size which seems a bit silly. As the ac3 is already lossy, I don't want to re-encode to mp3 and lose even more quality. mka would be ideal...if it would work.

[TRaSH]

well you said it doesn't work,
so if you want it working you need to use something what's supported

[black_eagle]

AC3 can be wrapped in a m4a container. Have you tried that ?

[pssturges]

I knew it could go as an additional audio track in mp4, but wasn't aware it could go in m4a. Any suggestions on how to do it?

[ironic_monkey]

My fork notspiff@kodi-cmake has mka support if someone wants to submit to mainline.

[pssturges]

Thanks to black_eagle this is solved. Turns out you can put ac3 in an m4a container and xbmc handles it perfectly. I used ffmpeg to remux my mka files to m4a using this command:

Code:

ffmpeg -i input.mka -acodec copy output.m4a

Very simple and worked like a charm. Only minor issue is that not all the tag info came across to the mp4 files, but that's no biggy.


A bit more research and it seems according to this mka is supported, but as far as I can tell, it can be played, but the tags aren't parsed and it's not imported into the music library. Seems a fairly significant oversight to me.

@ironic_monkey I would love it if that could be included in helix.

Thanks everyone for your input!